Will we simply remember Sarah Palin as the John the Baptist to Michele Bachmann’s Jesus? Is she the promised one? Bachmann will apparently form a presidential exploratory committee in early summer, if not earlier.

I think I just heard a promo with Newt calling President Obama’s Libya policy “incoherent and confused.” I mean, wow.

John Stossel on Fox: “Why is there a Bureau of Indian Affairs? … No group in America has been more helped by the government than the American Indians.”

Top social conservative leader Bryan Fischer rolls out a new “Christians-only” version of the 1st amendment.

If Health Care Reform is repealed, some patients who got transplants based on the new coverage won’t have the coverage for the medications that will keep them alive.

We have another one.

Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, was demanding strong action against Libya. “Additional U.S. and international measures should include the establishment and enforcement of a no-fly zone,” she said on Feb. 26. But the day the bombing started, March 19, she pulled a complete 180 and declared that “the case has not been made for me to be satisfied that this is the right move for the United States at this time.”

Any other Newts out there? Let us know.

Doug Hampton, the ex-aide and cuckolded (by Ensign) husband whose public disclosures led to the end of Sen. John Ensign’s career, has now himself been indicted for breaking revolving door lobbying laws.

Remember back at the height of the union protests in Wisconsin, one deputy Attorney General from Indiana got canned for suggesting Gov. Walker use “live ammunition” on the protestors.

Well now another genius, a deputy prosector in Johnson County named Carlos Lam has had to resign his office after investigative reporters in Wisconsin determined that during the height of the protests Lam sent Gov. Walker emails suggesting he stage a fake union-backed assassination attempt on Gov. Walker to turn public opinion against the state’s unions.

This is a bizarre, ugly turn of events. And for me it’s a little weird because of the people involved. I just found out about it from TPM Reader AS.

Bill Cronon — or William Cronon, as I think of him — is a Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin. A few days ago he wrote an oped in the Times critical of Gov. Walker and his push to abolish collective bargaining rights for public employees in Wisconsin. About a week before that, he wrote a blog post — the first in a new blog called Scholar as Citizen — examining just who’s behind this big anti-union push. He focused on a group called ALEC (The American Legislative Exchange Council).

Now, so far, nothing particularly controversial about any of this. But then it took a dark turn. Or perhaps better to say, then the story got into gear with everything else we’ve seen out of the Walker administration over the last three months. Read More

Late this afternoon I mentioned this bizarre story of an Indiana prosecutor who had to resign his job today after it was discovered that he’d emailed Gov Walker during the height of the protests in Wisconsin suggesting that Walker arrange a fake assassination attempt against himself to turn the public against the unions. Here’s the story.

What occurred to me though is that the story sounds so cartoonish and unreal that you might get the sense that this was some sort of hastily penned throwaway line. Or perhaps it was meant as a joke.

But look at what the guy actually said … Read More